First off the rain - monsoon season has arrived. Actually I had no idea what this really was until I googled it.
Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.
I'm one week into monsoon season and I've already realized how unreliable the Weather app on my iPhone is. The night before it will say 30% chance of rain and then the next morning it will say 90%.
About almost starting a fire in my apartment... My Canadian friend and I decided to make banana bread for her Korean boyfriend's mom. She used her recipe and made everything in her room and brought it upstairs to my apartment, since I have a mini-oven {read: convectional oven}. We put them in little bread tin foil trays and went down to her apartment to wash dishes. The bread was supposed to bake for an hour so we were going to come right back. Well, I came back about 10-15 minutes later. The top of the bread was completely black and smoke was coming out of the top of the oven! So eventually we just made a few muffins and scratched the rest of the batch to head out for a walk. We went to Hyundai Department Store because I wanted to check out the Uniqlo summer sale! Uniqlo is my favorite store/brand ever!! It's from Japan but prices are cheaper in Korea.
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Tomorrow: test lesson with a potential Korean tutor, picking up some books I bought off of Craigslist, shoe shopping, and enjoying some hand-drip coffee in Hapjeong.